Nirvana, “Nevermind”

Nirvana-Nevermind-Album-CoverRolling Stone ranking: #17
Our score: 99.98

The overnight-success story of the 1990s, Nirvana‘s second album and its totemic first single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” shot up from the nascent grunge scene in Seattle to kick Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard album chart and blow hair metal off the map…

Read the Rolling Stone review here.


Chris McJaggerly:

Could be the best album ever.  Nirvana demotes Sgt Peppers to fulltime meter maid duty and rips a hole in the hull of Pet Sounds’ sloop.

Rating: 33 1/3 (Maximum)

Tom Heerman:

No argument for that precise analysis.

Rating 33 1/3

Chris:

I’ve been singing “love myself better than you!” a lot lately.  My spouse doesn’t appreciate it.

Tom Heerman:

An albino. A mosquito.

Tom Heerman:

My Libido.

Chris:

Yeah.

Kurt:
I feel stupid

Tom Heerman:

Its a perfect record, in spite of Kurt’s future demise soiling it for a period of time.